Tony Marcinkewciz

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Tony Marcinkewciz

Republican Party

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Last election

August 2, 2022

Education

Bachelor's

Central Michigan University, 2017

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Birthplace

Detroit, Mich.

Religion

Catholic

Profession

Software engineer

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Tony Marcinkewciz (Republican Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Michigan's 10th Congressional District. He lost in the Republican primary on August 2, 2022.

Marcinkewciz completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.

Biography

Tony Marcinkewciz was born in Michigan, Michigan. Marcinkewciz's professional experience includes working as a software engineer. He earned a bachelor's degree from Central Michigan University in 2017.

Marcinkewciz has been affiliated with the Macomb GOP.

Elections

2022

See also: Michigan's 10th Congressional District election, 2022

General election

General election for U.S. House Michigan District 10

John James defeated Carl Marlinga, Andrea Kirby, and Mike Saliba in the general election for U.S. House Michigan District 10 on November 8, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		John James (R)	48.8	159,202
		Carl Marlinga (D)	48.3	157,602
		Andrea Kirby (Working Class Party)	1.8	5,905
		Mike Saliba (L)	1.1	3,524
		Other/Write-in votes	0.0	4

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 326,237
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Michigan District 10

Carl Marlinga defeated Rhonda Powell, Angela Rogensues, Huwaida Arraf, and Henry Yanez in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Michigan District 10 on August 2, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Carl Marlinga	47.8	32,653
		Rhonda Powell	16.7	11,396
		Angela Rogensues	13.9	9,503
		Huwaida Arraf	13.0	8,846
		Henry Yanez	8.6	5,891

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 68,289
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House Michigan District 10

John James defeated Tony Marcinkewciz in the Republican primary for U.S. House Michigan District 10 on August 2, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		John James	86.3	63,417
		Tony Marcinkewciz	13.7	10,079

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 73,496
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Eric Esshaki (R)

Libertarian convention

Libertarian convention for U.S. House Michigan District 10

Mike Saliba advanced from the Libertarian convention for U.S. House Michigan District 10 on July 10, 2022.

		Candidate
✔		Mike Saliba (L)

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Working Class Party convention

Working Class Party convention for U.S. House Michigan District 10

Andrea Kirby advanced from the Working Class Party convention for U.S. House Michigan District 10 on June 26, 2022.

		Candidate
✔		Andrea Kirby (Working Class Party)

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Campaign themes

2022

Ballotpedia survey responses

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Tony Marcinkewciz completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Marcinkewciz's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

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Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

I'm Tony Marcinkewciz a lifelong resident of the state of Michigan that grew up all over the lower peninsula. My family has been through many highs and lows in life and from a young age as we moved around I had to become comfortable with being the new kid. As a byproduct of that type of upbringing, I learned how to talk to people often listening to the many stories and experiences of those I crossed paths with. Throughout my experience, I've come to understand that people have more in common with each other than they may think and often times just need someone to listen, attempt to understand, and give them your honest opinion no matter what it may be. From a young age, I was more interested in getting a head start working than I was in sports or extracurriculars. I worked in my grandfather's shop on weekends until I could afford a car and then began working every day after school while teaching myself finance and how to invest in the stock market. After graduation, I decided to save money and attend Macomb Community College for 2 years before heading off to Central Michigan University where I would eventually graduate with my Bachelor of Science in Information Technology. Today I have been a Software Engineer for 5 years and have decided that given the dire circumstances our country is faced with it was time to throw my hat in the ring and run for U.S Congress to address extreme problems that many see but not many stand in opposition to.

Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

• Small Government
• Small Business
• Small Institutions

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

I'm a Libertarian Conservative who believes small government, small business, and small institutions are what America should aim for as the over-concentration of power in any of the 3 is antithetical to the freedom and sovereignty that made this country great. Today we have institutions that have shown themselves to be indoctrination centers pushing dangerous ideologies onto children, businesses that own the town square censoring the speech of anyone in opposition to the establishment narrative, and a government that not only subsidizes both but encourages/requires these abusive practices.

My Public Policy Agenda:
1. Deal with devastating inflation by cutting government programs/regulations and switching from subsidizing corporations to subsidizing people directly.
2. Lowering the federal income tax rate for workers.
3. Create a committee with publicly televised hearings to host debates between Dr. Robert Malone and Dr. Peter Mccullough vs. Dr. Fauci and Dr. Collins.
4. Propose a constitutional amendment enshrining bodily autonomy as a human right protecting against coercive vaccination and discrimination.
5. Trust bust big tech to free the town square.
6. Propose a House rule that all bills be limited to 50 pages to increase public transparency.
7. Continue border wall construction and address the issues caused by the immigration crisis. (drugs, sex trafficking, transporting)

8. Propose a bill to bar any federally elected official from trading assets in the market

Who do you look up to? Whose example would you like to follow, and why?

I look up to people like Ron and Rand Paul who even in the face of profound problems are courageous, persuasive, and humble. I would like to follow in Ron's footsteps to expose the malfeasance of The Federal Reserve as American's continue to be sold out by big banks, businesses, and government institutions. Since the turn of the century, they have put us all in great danger and have blatantly put the American people last kicking the can down the road time and time again while changing measurement methodologies along the way to conceal our economic conditions.

Both men have stood up for the American people and advocated against the central planning architecture that the rest of our government officials are so desperate to expand. The American system was originally built around preserving the individual's rights and allowing them the freedom to make what they can with the skills they cultivated but we have unknowingly strayed rather far from those principles and have stumbled down the historically tyrannical road of collectivism. The answer to our current situation is rediscovering what made us the superpower we are today. Empowering individuals and instilling in our people independence to seek their personal meaning that humans require to make it through the often cruel and unfair experience of life.

No government bureaucrat or social worker will ever be able to craft you a fulfilling life that is up to each of us and us alone to craft for ourselves as Americans. And it all starts and ends with the individual and their choices.

What characteristics or principles are most important for an elected official?

The first principle that is necessary is the understanding that they are not one of the "anointed" chosen because they are better, smarter, or built differently than anyone else. They are one of the people not the chosen one by the people. One recognizes the fallibility of themselves and is humble the other is ego-driven and chasing something for themselves. I strive to be the former and if the people decide I will gladly step up to represent them. This should leader should understand why the tradition of freedom and decentralizing power is the key to our future as one person cannot be perfectly rational but a group on the whole acting within their own self-interest largely rational even when some individuals don't always act rationally.

Another principle would be a vision for the country and its people grounded in the historical understanding of both our country and the great empires of the past. Because history doesn't repeat itself but it often rhymes and if you can hear the warnings echoing from the past you can avoid catastrophe in the future. Today we are hearing many echoes from the past: stagflation in the economy, racial tension in our cities, authoritarian elites ruling by decree, and governments turning on their own people. And it's important to know where that leads us to.
The final principle would be the foresight to see how the developments of today can cause damnation tomorrow and has the wherewithal to meet those developments with appropriate constraints. Todays mainly consist of Big Tech's monetization of polarizing nations, the capabilities of AI, The Federal Reserves' interest in a FedCoin/ditching the dollar, and the regulations offshoring opportunity elsewhere as the middle class disintegrates here.

So my top principles would be recognizing your own fallibility, garnering/supporting freedom, knowing a fair amount of history, and having some foresight for the future.

What qualities does the U.S. House of Representatives possess that makes it unique as an institution?

One quality is that the house writes and introduces bills. This allows for the representatives to frame the discussion around issues that they find to be the highest priority. This is important because you only have so much attention and it needs to be allocated to the write problems and asking the right questions for Congress to be effective. The house also controls the repealing or deprecation of laws/bills that are in effect and can adjust the U.S code.

I think an unfortunate feature we have allowed to happen in government is the many spin-off institutions that are populated with unelected bureaucrats that need to be reigned in or abolished under Congress as they have used their powers against the very people they were meant to protect.
For Instance:

- The CIA's domestic spying programs and many false flag operations leading us into wars and humanitarian crisis' (i.e Gulf of Tonkin, Iran Contra, Operation Northwoods)

- The FBI's mobilizing as the defacto secret police of the Soviet era to intimidate parents at school board meetings and their harassing of journalists like James O'Keefe shaking him down and giving The NYT his privileged information between himself and his lawyer. Attempting to shut down freedom of speech/press which is protected explicitly by the constitution.

- The Federal Reserve which since 1913 has had 2 mandates. Keep unemployment and inflation low. Since then we've had The Great Depression, stagflation in the 1970s, The .com bubble rolled over into the 2008 housing crisis rolled over into today's bubble economy all while participating in incalculable conflicts worldwide. This private bank is literally the slave driver of the western world and Thomas Jefferson 200 years ago could see the reality it would lead to today.

So Congress is unique in so far as it holds the keys to unshackling our population from crony capitalist interests and must deprecate most of these institutions that have plagued the U.S population for a century.

Do you believe that it's beneficial for representatives to have previous experience in government or politics?

I believe it can be beneficial but only if they also understand and believe in the principles that made this country great in the first place. If the representative has experience but doesn't believe in freedom, equality of opportunity (not outcome), and that the federal government should be limited then I would advise against promoting them to higher office. The experience that I would value more is a person's experience in the community or as an entrepreneur which shows competence in creating human capital or providing a good/service that others vote with their dollars to promote.

Unfortunately, we have seen all too often that the incentive structure for politicians is not necessarily set up to encourage the solving of problems in a meaningful way but instead to keep finding or creating new problems whether or not they existed prior. Politicians will not be able to solve our problems but what they can do is not make them harder to solve by intervening.
Experience matters in any arena however experience in politics communicates something much different than in arenas that depend on production to sustain its people. Our branches of government are each monopolistic structures usually in opposition of one another whose power is ceded from the people meaning their production is at the expense of us all. And the way that production is conducted through backroom deals and trading votes/contributions implicates that more experience doesn't necessarily lead to better results for the people.

So experience can serve as a clue but I don't view it as the most important factor in the consideration for a political candidate.

What are your thoughts on term limits?

Term limits are a double-edged sword especially in the arena of foreign policy/foreign relations. There are a few principled leaders in Congress which if term limits were instituted we may find ourselves in a much worse position than we currently occupy. Also being that the switching of the president so often makes relations with other countries very difficult as the 2 parties continue to grow further apart ideologically. So I can see why you would at least want one branch to have the potential for continuity across many administrations as relationships are not easy to cultivate in politics.

However, If we were to allow the sitting Congressmen/Congresswomen/Senators to start at 0 when implementing the limits then I would be in favor. Many of our current leaders have done extensive damage to individual rights, free enterprise, race relations, and community. All too often they have been caught acting in their own self-interest or in their donor's interest and capitalizing on their public position.

So I would support term limits given the Congressional body that we see on Capitol Hill today and would include Washington DC staffers as well. As the people behind the scenes play an important part in crafting the end product no matter who occupies the office.

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Michigan's current delegation to the United States Congress

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Gary Peters (D)

Elissa Slotkin (D)

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Jack Bergman (R)

District 2

John Moolenaar (R)

District 3

Hillary Scholten (D)

District 4

Bill Huizenga (R)

District 5

Tim Walberg (R)

District 6

Debbie Dingell (D)

District 7

Tom Barrett (R)

District 8

Kristen Rivet (D)

District 9

Lisa McClain (R)

District 10

John James (R)

District 11

Haley Stevens (D)

District 12

Rashida Tlaib (D)

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Shri Thanedar (D)

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